Testimony of Yakov Schein, born in Sebezi, Latvia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Ponowez, Kaunas, Pinsk, Ufa, the Red Army and in other places

Testimony of Yakov Schein, born in Sebezi, Latvia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Ponowez, Kaunas, Pinsk, Ufa, the Red Army and in other places His childhood in Ponowez; attends a Tarbut school; membership in the Maccabi movement, 1933; increase in antisemitism; move to Kaunas; vocational studies in an ORT school; marriage at the age of 19; move back to Ponowez, 1941. Red Army occupation of Ponowez; move back to Kaunas; escape to Pinsk on a bicycle; move to forests with his wife with help from a young Belorussian man; escape to the Soviet border; meets relatives in Ufa; life in Ufa including work move to Buzuluk; receives a draft order for the Anders Army; move to Mari by train by means of the draft order; life with his sister who worked as a district attorney; draft into the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army; combat in the Memle Witebsk Oriol [?] area and in Latvia; release. Move to Vilna; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1974.